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Mfuleni informal settlement rocked by killings

The bodies of two couples were found fatally wounded in an Mfuleni informal settlement yesterday. According to SAPS Spokesperson Novela Potelwa, a vehicle entered the Covid-19 informal settlement at 23h00 on Wednesday evening and shortly after gunshots were heard. Subsequently, residents found the four bodies on Thursday morning in two different dwellings. The identities of the victims are yet to be determined and the motive for the murders is yet […]

today3 February 2023

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Myanmar military kills at least 25 people in raid on central town

Myanmar’s armed forces killed at least 25 people in a confrontation with opponents of the military at a town in the centre of the Southeast Asian nation, villagers said on Sunday, as people increasingly take up arms against the generals who seized power in a coup five months ago. A spokesman for the military did not respond to Reuters news agency calls requesting comment on the violence at Depayin in […]

today5 July 2021

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Police officer, two fighters killed in northern Kenya gun battle

A police reservist and two armed attackers have been killed in a gunfight in Kenya's northeast Mandera county near the border with Somalia. Security official Jeremiah Kosoim said a young boy had also been injured on Sunday during the gunfight that erupted as fighters were trying to destroy a telecommunications tower in the area. He did not give further details about the attackers, but Somalia-based rebel group al-Shabab has often […]

today15 June 2020

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Girls & Boys Town distances itself from notorious Cape Town area called Boys Town

A national non-profit organisation that runs programmes to strengthen vulnerable youth, Girls & Boys Town South Africa (GBTSA), has distanced itself from an area in Cape Town, colloquially known as Boys Town. “Girls & Boys Town South Africa (GBTSA) has nothing to do with the area in the Western Cape, colloquially known as 'Boys Town'," GBTSA chief executive, Lee Loynes, said. She was clarifying the matter after media reports drew attention to […]

today12 June 2020

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Popcru expresses concern over increase police attacks

The police union, Popcru, says it is disturbed by the increase in attacks on police members in the line of duty over the past three years. The union has commemorated the lives of 29 of its members who have died in the Mthatha cluster in the Eastern cape during this time. In the last five years 80 police members were killed while on duty. The killing of five police officers […]

today29 June 2018

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More than 136 people killed in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta

Russian and Syrian government forces have killed at least 136 civilians over the past 48 hours in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of the capital Damascus, according to residents and monitoring groups. On Monday, 30 civilians were killed in air raids; on the following day, 80 more were killed, and on Wednesday, another 26 were killed. At least 22 children and 21 women were among the dead. "Scenes of entire buildings, […]

today8 February 2018

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Entire Philippine city police force fired over killings

An entire city police force in the Philippines has been fired in metropolitan Manila after some of its members were suspected in the gruesome killings of three teenagers and others were seen on surveillance cameras robbing a house. The 1,200-strong Caloocan city police force will be relieved in batches and replaced, said metropolitan Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde. The officers will undergo 45 days of retraining, after which those facing […]

today16 September 2017

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